Good Growth and Governance in Africa
Author: Akbar Noman
Publisher: Blackstone Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 611
ISBN-13: 0199698562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume reflects the highlights of their deliberations.
Author: Akbar Noman
Publisher: Blackstone Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 611
ISBN-13: 0199698562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume reflects the highlights of their deliberations.
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 587
ISBN-13: 9780191738142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the history of developmental policy in sub-Saharan Africa and considers how different policy options might generate sustained economic growth and reduce poverty. It documents and interprets policy lessons and considers how to translate them to particular country contexts.
Author: Johnson W. Makoba
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783039119486
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NGOs and MFIs are seen as a third approach (i.e.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-11-29
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9264307931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 2008, the weight of developing and emerging economies in the global economy tipped over the 50% mark for the first time. Since then, Perspectives on Global Development has been tracking the shift in global wealth and its impact on developing countries. How much longer can the dividends of ...
Author: Moyo, Theresa
Publisher: CODESRIA
Published: 2015-03-02
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 2869785712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book revisits the perennial challenge that scholars, economists, and politicians have been grappling with since the 1960s. Development, in this book, has been defined in a context that projects it as a multidimensional and complex process which seeks to enhance the human, social, economic and cultural welfare of the people. This book calls for a rethinking of trade and industry for Africa's development. It uses data drawn from national development plans and strategies, and trade and industry issues have been prioritized at the continental level, in key policy documents. On the whole Africa's industry and trade performance have been poor in spite of national, regional, and continental plans. The contributors to this volume propose some alternative strategies and policies which are necessary for trade and industry to grow and to contribute to the well-being of Africa's people. It calls for a developmental trade and industry policy which, fundamentally, must be people-centred. African states should invest time, energy and resources to develop policies which will take into consideration African realities.The different contributors are aware that Africa has experienced strong economic growth in the recent past but this growth has largely been due to a strong demand for Africa's primary commodity exports. It has also been a result of increases in productivity and domestic investment and remittances from Africans living in the Diaspora. It is important to note that despite this unprecedented growth performance, the impact of trade and industry on development has been limited. The book argues that a structural transformation of Africa's economies is inevitable if Africa is to achieve the shift from the dominant paradigm of production and export of primary goods. The various contributors to this book agree that there is need to rethink policy and strategy in order to achieve industrial development in Africa. There is no unique solution or answer that can fit all situations as African countries are not the same. While Africa can draw lessons from other regions which have successfully industrialized, this book argues that policies and strategies will have to be adapted to country-specific situations and circumstances.
Author: Busani Mpofu
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2019-03-27
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1789201772
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Development has remained elusive in Africa. Through theoretical contributions and case studies focusing on Southern Africa’s former white settler states, South Africa and Zimbabwe, this volume responds to the current need to rethink (and unthink) development in the region. The authors explore how Africa can adapt Western development models suited to its political, economic, social and cultural circumstances, while rejecting development practices and discourses based on exploitative capitalist and colonial tendencies. Beyond the legacies of colonialism, the volume also explores other factors impacting development, including regional politics, corruption, poor policies on empowerment and indigenization, and socio-economic and cultural barriers.
Author: G. Kararach
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-10-28
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 1137360593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author investigates the agenda for transformation in contemporary African development studies: policy studies, strategic studies, international relations and economic diplomacy. With a focus on the capacity dimension, he proposes critical policy and action-oriented recommendations on how to overcome present and future emergencies in Africa.
Author: Komla Tsey
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2011-10-03
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9956726524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this thought provoking book, Komla Tsey argues that if governments, NGOs, development donor agencies and researchers are serious about development in Africa, they need to get down to ground level, both metaphorically and literally. They must search deep into Africas own rich oral traditions by creating space and opportunity for ordinary Africans, whose voices have so far been conspicuously absent in the development discourse, to tell and share their own stories of development. Story-sharing as research methodology acts as a mirror, reflecting the participants self-evaluation of where they have come from, where they are now, and how to proceed into the future. They are strategies that can empower and enable individuals and communities of people to be agents of their own change which, in Tsey's view, is what development is all about.